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Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity

Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity

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Jon Chu grew up in Silicon Valley, in the shadow of Apple Park. His
father, Chef Chu, still runs his eponymous restaurant there, and
Jon worshiped Steve Jobs as a kid. As a teen, he used Apple
products to learn how to make movies. Now he directs some of the
biggest movies in Hollywood, but his relationship with the tech
industry is much more complex. Kara and Jon discuss his “new
view” trilogy: Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights, and his latest
film, Wicked. They unpack his memoir Viewfinder, and Chu explains
how growing up in Silicon Valley shaped his understanding of
technology — and how the industry’s switch towards data
surveillance has changed his relationship with it as an
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